1. Kidney Disease as Risk of In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome
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Josiane Brehm, Gabriel Felicio Morais, Murilo Guedes, Camila Hartmann, Heloísa Ferro, Noessa Hiromi Assano Stangler, Julia Calisto, and Gustavo Lenci Marques
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Acute coronary syndrome ,medicine.medical_specialty ,In hospital mortality ,business.industry ,kidney disease ,General Engineering ,Cardiology ,medicine.disease ,mortality ,acute coronary syndrome ,risk factor ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,In patient ,in-hospital ,business ,Kidney disease - Abstract
Background An acute coronary syndrome (ACS) event can be linked to several risk factors, including kidney disease. Currently, it is unknown if kidney disease is associated with the in-hospital mortality of patients admitted with ACS, regardless of the main confounders. In this study, we aimed to determine if kidney disease predicts in-hospital mortality among ACS patients. Methodology This is a retrospective cohort study that included patients who were admitted to the cardiology center with ACS. The patients were analyzed for their clinical characteristics, previous diseases, risk factors, and blood samples for laboratory analysis. Continuous variables were analyzed using Student’s t-test, and categorical variables using the chi-square test. A p-value of
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- 2021